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Signature-based detection of privilege-escalation attacks on Android

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Niazi, R.H. Waseem, T. Shamsi, J.A. Khan, M.M.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., FAST-Nat. Univ. of Comput. & Emerging Sci., Karachi, Pakistan (Shamsi, J.A.) \|\| Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol, NED Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Karachi, Pakistan (Khan, M.M.) \|\| Comput. Inf. Syst., NED Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Karachi, Pakistan (Niazi, R.H.; Waseem, T.)
Abstract	Android has become a major player in smartphone software arena, thanks to the massively positive reception of Google Play by the developers and users alike. In general, Android applications follow a set of permissions, which are used for access control. However, through the privilege-escalation vulnerability, a malicious application can escalate itself and access an un-permitted resource. Consequently, serious security and safety exploits such as privacy violation, reverse-shell access to the device, and drive-by downloads may occur. We propose a flexible and efficient defense mechanism against such exploits. Our solution - SAndroid, is an extensible and a lightweight application. It provides enhanced safety and security against privilege escalation attacks through rapid detection. SAndroid is based on active monitoring and detection of malicious applications through tracking of system logs and malicious process signatures. The assurance of safety provided by SAndroid is confirmed through design, testing, and verification. SAndroid follows modular approach permitting high flexibility and efficiency. Through real experiments, we confirmed that SAndroid is an efficient and low cost solution having negligible false-positives. This paper describes the architecture and design of the SAndroid framework and provides details of our experiments.
Starting Page	44
Ending Page	49
File Size	594956
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467379144
DOI	10.1109/CIACS.2015.7395565
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-12-18
Publisher Place	Pakistan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Operating System Security Humanoid robots System Assurance Browsers Security Privilege Escalation Social Networks and Web Security Security and Safety Malware Internet Safety Androids Monitoring
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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